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...booster would argue that the bioengineering of farm animals and plants poses no risks. With plants, for instance, there is always the possibility that new traits could be accidentally transferred to wild relatives of domestic species. Theoretically, experiments with genes that confer resistance to disease or herbicides could create hardier weeds. Food safety is another legitimate concern. Products from genetically altered crops and livestock will require rigorous testing to ensure that they are harmless...
...Harrisville, N.H., the Elm Research Institute has funded a project headed by Dr. Eugene Smalley of the University of Wisconsin to come up with a hardier elm. The tree is called the American Liberty Elm (after a famed Massachusetts tree under which George Washington purportedly took command of the Continental Army in 1775). The American Liberty has a smaller cell structure that prevents Dutch elm disease from spreading through the tree's vascular system. So far, Elm Research has distributed 75,000 of the new trees for prices ranging from $ $2 to $5 each, a good start on its target...
...inducing a form of sticker shock in consumers who have grown accustomed to deep discounts in the decade since airline deregulation. But the kind of cutthroat competition that produced those fares is fading fast. After a severe shake-out in which some 214 airlines disappeared or merged into hardier carriers, the industry is concentrated in fewer hands than ever before. Gone from the runways are such established carriers as National, Western, Pacific Southwest, Frontier, Ozark and Republic. Vanished too is a fleet of energetic upstarts, including People Express, Muse Air, New York Air, Pride Air, Jet America and Empire...
Scientists tried to save the bird from extinction by crossbreeding it with a hardier sparrow. But Orange Band died before they could complete the job, leaving five hybrid Dusky Seasides -- one of them seven-eighths pure...
...entire vestibule and half the pinochle game reply smugly: "Listen, you gotta have a lot of humor and a tremendous amount of stoicism to survive the Long Island Rail Road." Each, hardier than thou, recounts a tale of endurance. "You should have been here yesterday. The people who change at Jamaica got on a train that already had passengers from two trains loaded onto it. Then they rode out to the middle of Queens Village and stopped for an hour. No explanation. No seats. No air." The man crouched on his briefcase one-ups: "You should have been here last...